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That seeming aloofness only augmented Hartmann's longstanding reputation for brusqueness and abrasiveness. After he became a Counsellor to the President, his father, Miner Hartmann, 85, sent him a vial of silicon carbide, which is used in grinding steel. "You grew up on it," explained an accompanying note from the elder Hartmann, a patent attorney in Beverly Hills, Calif., and former chemist who once directed research for the Carborundum Co. Even Wife Roberta concedes that Hartmann "does not have time to be as tactful as some people would wish." But he can also be garrulous and genial, particularly while...
Born in Rapid City, S. Dak., Hartmann was raised in Niagara Falls and California, where his family moved when he was nine in hopes that a warmer climate would end his repeated bouts with pneumonia. After he graduated from Stanford University in 1938, a globe-trotting student tour of Japan, China and Europe whetted his interest in journalism, and he joined the Los Angeles Times to cover the police and local courts. In 1954 he was made chief of the newspaper's first full-time Washington bureau and soon became one of then Vice President Nixon's favorite...
...Hartmann returned to Washington two years later as publicist for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, became editor of position papers for the House Republican Conference hi 1966 and began his close association with Ford, who was then Republican leader hi the House. In 1969 Hartmann joined Ford's staff as legislative assistant and quickly won his boss's admiration for his willingness to work long hours, his avid embrace of conservative principles and his skill as a writer. Hartmann proudly recalls how he helped gore the Democratic Administration by exploiting the phrase "credibility...
When Ford became Vice President, he named Hartmann his chief of staff. But Hartmann proved to be a poor administrator, and after Ford was sworn in as President he made a point of retaining General Alexander M. Haig Jr. as White House chief of staff. Hartmann nonetheless remains the President's most influential and most nearly indispensable adviser. To master the grueling White House pace, he has given up cigarettes, coffee and martinis and dropped, at least temporarily, his hobby of snorkeling and taking underwater photographs near his vacation home in St. Croix. He still swims daily...
...record in private enterprise, diplomacy, the Federal Government and as Governor of New York, President Ford put him at the top of his list. "The President was not looking for the survival of the Republican Party but for the survival of the Republic," explained his chief aide Robert Hartmann. "The overwhelming criterion was whether the Vice President could step into the top spot...